CDR: Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom is hard. There are no rules or anything to help tell you what you should and shouldn't do – you know, because it's freedom and freedom means “no rules, no dues and no one in charge.” You have to figure everything out for yourself. Then, you have to make all the decisions yourself. And, if anything goes wrong you can't blame it on anyone else. You are responsible. More

Freedom is hard. I mean, like, there are no rules or anything to help tell you what you should and shouldn't do – you know, because it's freedom and freedom means “no rules, no dues and no one in charge.”So, you have to figure everything out for yourself. Then, you have to actually make all the decisions yourself. And, if anything goes wrong you can't blame it all on somebody else -- like maybe George W. Bush -- because . . . . It is your fault. Boy, it sure is nice to have someone else to blame for all the bad stuff that happens.Hmmmm . . . . Maybe this freedom stuff is highly overrated.

The Citizen's Desk Reference is not a civics or a history book, a political manifesto or a manual for community organizing or an attempt to sway your vote left or right or otherwise. These books are like a software manual or the universal remote control operating instructions handbook that is stacked up or stuffed away somewhere particularly unhandy, especially when things aren't working right and you have finally reached the RTFM (“Read the [insert preferred expletive] Manual”) stress point so common with modern technology.

The Citizen's Desk Reference is presented as a series of ebooks which can be read in order or, like most manuals, randomly -- even haphazardly browsed according to the crisis or interest at hand.

M.T. Bass is the author of the novels My Brother's Keeper, In the Black and Crossroads. He is an irregular contributor to the Mudcat Falls Times-Herald-Post-Picayune-Press-Gazette-Tribune, edits the Citizen's Desk Reference & Diagnostic Manual and is feverishly compiling Lucifer's Lexicon. He lives, writes, flies and makes music in Mudcat Falls, USA.

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